Visual Instruction Tuning

Instruction tuning large language models (LLMs) using machine-generated instruction-following data has improved zero-shot capabilities on new tasks, but the idea is less explored in the multimodal field. In this paper, we present the first attempt to use language-only GPT-4 to generate multimodal language-image instruction-following data. By instruction tuning on such generated data, we introduce LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant, an end-to-end trained large multimodal model that connects a vision encoder and LLM for general-purpose visual and language understanding.Our early experiments show that LLaVA demonstrates impressive multimodel chat abilities, sometimes exhibiting the behaviors of multimodal GPT-4 on unseen images/instructions, and yields a 85.1% relative score compared with GPT-4 on a synthetic multimodal instruction-following dataset. When fine-tuned on Science QA, the synergy of LLaVA and GPT-4 achieves a new state-of-the-art accuracy of 92.53%. We make GPT-4 generated visual instruction tuning data, our model and code base publicly available.

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Datasets


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LLaVA-Bench

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MVBench BenchLMM
Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Visual Question Answering BenchLMM LLaVA-1.5-7B GPT-3.5 score 46.83 # 4
Visual Question Answering BenchLMM LLaVA-1-13B GPT-3.5 score 43.50 # 7
Video Question Answering MVBench LLaVa Avg. 36.0 # 5

Methods